Raineypark Wrote:
For some men, younger, more beautiful and STUPID is the perfect hat trick.
That's true, until they marry them and live with them for awhile. As soon as they find out they can't cook, clean, etc, and realize how helpless they are, they quickly tire of them and look elsewhere.
I think the only reason why Barnabas is so crazy about Rachel is just like what others have mentioned here, because she's just a Josette look alike and nothing more for him. Rachel could have been an evil witch for all he cared but as long as she looked like his beloved Josette, that's fine for him.
Im not too crazy about Rachel either and I really don't think she's as helpless & innocent as she would like others to believe she is. The very first minute she arrived with Edward at the train station she was already asking him all kinds of nosy questions about "Mrs.Collins" and could clearly see how uncomfortable Edward was with her questions. Right then and there, that should have been the end of it. Instead, she enters Collinwood all wide eyed as if she can't wait to go exploring the place from top to bottom. She snoops around all hours of the day and night and just won't take NO for an answer.
If she was truly as helpless as she would like Barnabas to believe then she wouldn't have stolen that key from the Pantry and gone up to a strange dark room all by herself just to investigate. She's just plain nosy & sneaky and seems to do anything to be the center of attention. It's obvious that she loves all the attention that Barnabas is giving her and couldn't care less what anyone else in that household has to say to her.
I really liked Lady Kitty because her character was so different from the others that KLS portrayed. IMO, Maggie, Josette & Rachel were all so similiar but as Lady Kitty, KLS really shone as we got to see a completely different character altogether. I really thought that this was KLS's best role on the show. :-)